Triple

T20417083
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil E500740 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object John Berendt
John Berendt is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," which became a long-running bestseller and cultural phenomenon.
E1428927 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: John Berendt | Statement: [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, basedOnAuthor, John Berendt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Berendt
Context triple: [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, basedOnAuthor, John Berendt]
  • A. David Ebershoff
    David Ebershoff is an American author and editor best known for his novel "The Danish Girl," which was adapted into an acclaimed feature film.
  • B. Gregg Mayles
    Gregg Mayles is a British video game designer best known for his long-time work at Rare on classic titles such as the Donkey Kong Country series and Banjo-Kazooie.
  • C. Alexander McCall Smith
    Alexander McCall Smith is a Scottish author best known for his internationally popular "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series of mystery novels set in Botswana.
  • D. Tom Wolfe
    Tom Wolfe was an American author and journalist renowned for pioneering New Journalism and writing influential works such as "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities."
  • E. Pat Conroy
    Pat Conroy was an American novelist and memoirist known for his lyrical prose and emotionally charged stories often set in the American South, including works like "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: John Berendt
Triple: [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, basedOnAuthor, John Berendt]
Generated description
John Berendt is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," which became a long-running bestseller and cultural phenomenon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Berendt
Target entity description: John Berendt is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," which became a long-running bestseller and cultural phenomenon.
  • A. David Ebershoff
    David Ebershoff is an American author and editor best known for his novel "The Danish Girl," which was adapted into an acclaimed feature film.
  • B. Gregg Mayles
    Gregg Mayles is a British video game designer best known for his long-time work at Rare on classic titles such as the Donkey Kong Country series and Banjo-Kazooie.
  • C. Alexander McCall Smith
    Alexander McCall Smith is a Scottish author best known for his internationally popular "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series of mystery novels set in Botswana.
  • D. Tom Wolfe
    Tom Wolfe was an American author and journalist renowned for pioneering New Journalism and writing influential works such as "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities."
  • E. Pat Conroy
    Pat Conroy was an American novelist and memoirist known for his lyrical prose and emotionally charged stories often set in the American South, including works like "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini."
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69e0b4a935588190b9446a99b37ced44 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e67a4437448190b07b6e6e3de5830f completed April 20, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087b284bb8819090f76ec27116c619 completed May 16, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088017be588190ab94b8180e44ebf4 completed May 16, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0880c45e1081908f439ade0c31a47e completed May 16, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:30 a.m.